The moment he entered this Demon Forest, he sensed more than a dozen intensely malicious presences.
At least seven or eight great demons lurked in the shadows, watching like hungry tigers, ready to attack and take his life!
Suddenly, flames filled the distant sky, and a nauseating stench of blood surged toward him, as terrifying as the descent of an evil spirit.
Xiao Chen's expression shifted slightly. With a flicker of his divine sense, the Dragon Slayer Sword unsheathed itself from his back.
Purple radiance shone in every direction, staining the void.
The sword rang like a dragon's cry. The ancient blade soared into the sky, traced a brilliant streak through the void, and landed steadily in Xiao Chen's hand.
Roar!
A moment later, a beast's roar shook the heavens and thundered through the mountain forest.
Within the distant Demon Forest, a terrifying giant beast wreathed in crimson flames rose into the air. Like a blazing sun, it hung high in the sky, dazzling beyond compare.
Xiao Chen looked up, and his expression changed slightly when he saw the strange beast clearly. It had a chicken's head, a lion's body, and a pair of wings on its back. Its flames surged skyward as though they would burn the universe itself. This was actually a legendary Divine-Fire Chicken-Lion Beast!
These vicious beasts were extremely terrifying, and traces of them had appeared across several realms.
According to an ancient tome of considerable provenance, a Divine-Fire Chicken-Lion Beast had appeared in a forbidden land somewhere in Great Xia five thousand eight hundred and thirty-one years ago.
Once, a warband of over a hundred Martial Kings had entered that forbidden land to explore it. They accidentally trespassed into the Divine-Fire Chicken-Lion Beast's territory and disturbed its slumber. It slaughtered them all, burning them to